Aeronautics: Wild Plane

Citizens of San Gabriel, Calif., looking
up one day last week, saw a figure drop over the edge of a plane in the
sky, a parachute blossom out. The wild plane flew on until it was
over the city, dived steeply, then leveled out at 1,000 ft. and headed
for the business district. Rocking and zigzagging, it finally lunged
toward the railroad station, veered at the last second and ripped
into a line of telegraph wires, flopped over, fell into the backyard of
an empty house. A sigh of relief breathed through San...